Todaaayy, we gan be talking about one of my best topics.
Guess? Guesssss . Okay, fine fine I’d tell you. Its gan be about friendships. I
want to point out that friendship is like the second most popular topic
talked about on social networks, well it’s a kind of relationship yo. Anyway, I just
going to try and define it in my own little way.
Friendship is an unromantic relationship that involves two
or more people that have philia love (unconditional) for themselves .Mark the word
(philia) and also the word (love). Aristotle believed that a person can bear
goodwill to another for one of three reasons: he is useful, pleasant and that
he is good. From my point of view , It is called a ship BECAUSE ; ships are
meant for more than one person , that is when you are in a friendship, you have to act not
only in your interest but the interest of others involved in the ship .
So first of all I’m not going to define love , I’m just
going to refer you to the greatest book
of all time , so you will read what it says about love in 1corintians 13 . I just want to point out some
attributes of love that I would use later :Love is patient and kind , love doesn’t
not boast , love envieth not , love is not arrogant or rude , it doesn’t insist
on its way , rejoices in the truth , love bears all things , believes all
things ,hopes all things ,and endures all things .
With the reference I made to the Bible , I can decide to stop typing this post
because it is detailed enough to pass the
message to anybody that is reading this post or is going to read it . But I’m
going to go on any way, im mainly going to be painting out scenarios that relate
to the attributes mentioned above.
Ok so that been said, let’s start the body of this message proper.
Have a seat please, adjust your
glasses.
I’m going to be using 5 persons in my scenarios (Most if not
all scenarios are based on true stories)
Person 1: raya
Person 2: kaya
Person 3: faya
Person 4: saya
Person 5: naya
SCENARIO 1:
In this school, students that have excellent results are encouraged
by having their names put up on a notice board so the whole school gets to see
them. Saya and raya are “close friends”.
Naya , faya and Kaya : omg saya , your name is on honours
roll, come come and see.
Saya : lol, stop lying jare . I don’t believe
Naya , faya and Kaya: we are serious , just come .
Saya finds out that her name is truly on the honours roll
and is too exicted, it also happened that she was the fifth position in class.
She was confused because she didn’t engage in exclusive reading, even the night
prep, most times she didn’t get to read, lol. Raya gets to know about saya’s
name being on the honours roll and makes a very bitter comment
Raya : How can she be fifth and n have her name on honours
roll and me that walks with her has to go for extra lessons, I won’t even talk
to her again . She’s so wicked.
Saya heard about it and feel very disappointed. Raya stops talking to Saya and starts moving
with some other people. Saya is left all alone to face the world, she begins to
fall apart because she lost a friend earlier on and this other one is angry
about her success .
What do you think?
Love envieth not: how can you call yourself somebody’s
friend and be so bitter about the person’s success? I mean I’m in awe at the
way people actually behave. You share
your lunch money together, you eat together, you laugh together but deep down
you have an inner hatred for the person? I mean how???
It’s so sad that these days’ things like these are rampant;
some people go as far as even snatching their friend’s husbands, my lord, this
world is really wicked. All I have to say is, if you feel bad about som ething good
happening in your friends life, you don’t deserve to be called a friend of that
person.
If you have any reservations, tell the person, don’t go around telling
random people things, gossiping and bringing strangers into your ship to sink it. When
there are too many people on a ship, it begins to weigh the ship down, or when
it hits an iceberg, what happens? The ship sustains a scar that can never be
fixed and then from there it goes down till it gets to bottom of the
sea, and most times very few people can survive it. You may use a safety boat
or whatever, but the chances of survival are very slim, and if you finally get
to dry land, you will never forget that event, it will be like a scar and also
a miracle, because you may never want to travel by water ever again. The ship in
this scenario is your friendship, and the people are you and the other people
you invited into the friendship, when it hits the iceberg, it will sink so fast and even if you guys manage to swim out of the cold water to dry land, the
stigma of having friends and getting betrayed will remain with the friend’s
trust you betrayed forever.
SCENARIO 2: (final scenario)
Kaya, naya and faya are very close friends, almost
inseparable. Kaya set Naya up big time maybe just to spite her in front of
everybody. Prior to the setup, naya to kaya about a particular situation related
to the setup that may strain their friendship, but kaya ignored it and decided
to rather set her friend up. Naya had other friends that knew about the setup,
but they didn’t tell her. When kaya finally went through with the setup, she
ensured the call was recorded and almost everybody knew about it but naya. She
resumed school and people were acting weird to her, someone even threatened her.She wondered why it was so Until the issue escalated and naya was made to look like a real devil, naya
couldn’t feel her legs for some days, she cried her eyes out, guess what?
Faya went to meet crying naya , guess what she said ?
how would you do that to kaya?
LOL. Yes im in shock as
well because, the right question to ask is what really happened?
I mean, she
was her friend despite whatever she heard from the people around. It’s better
to hear from the horses’ mouth you know. Naya was too weak to talk, but she
just kept crying. Faya didn’t know the fire she ignited in Naya , at that
moment Naya’s two friends had betrayed , but what hurt the most was that faya ,
the last person that might have believed her true story and her only hope was
already charmed by the sweet words of kaya and the remaining people in the
world . Their ship had finally hit the biggest iceberg, they didn’t even need
people to help them sink their ship, words of the mouth uprooted the anchor of
their friendship and it couldn’t be fixed back because the ship was already
halfway to the bottom of the sea. From this action naya changed a lot, she
trusted less and cared less.
You want people to sink your ship? fine go ahead, allow them
to feed you with their hateful ideas and illusions, their horrible rumors and
all sorts .Love believeth all things, sadly faya didn’t even listen to naya’s
story in the first place, talk more of believing her , love is patient: why
didn’t faya just give naya a hug first even if she was mad at her before she spat
those words at her? Or even if not hug her may pat her back or clean her tears? Want to know why?
BECAUSE FRIENDSHIP HAS LOST ITS VALUE.
Nowadays, you can call anyone your friend, even the girl you met
on the bus yesterday and talked about how to make akara and puff puff . So what ? Because you enjoyed their company, you’re now friends with them?? The best example
of a friend is Jesus, because he laid down his life for us. That’s the greatest
sacrifice anybody can make. It says, no greater love than a man to die for his friends . Now I’m not saying you should die, and
yes I’m saying you should die literally because to me the basis of a good
friendship is love, and love to me involves death, literally. Death to self
because you are thinking of the consequences of your actions you know and how
it will affect other people in the ship.
NOT EVERYBODY YOU TALK TO IS YOUR FRIEND
One other thing I’d like to address is the aspect of communication,
the phrase of “we don’t talk everyday but I know you got me and I got you “fine I agree but what exactly
do you got in me? Because, you don’t even know what happened in my life yesterday,
whether I almost died or my mum is still stuck in Rome. My point is ,try to make
up for lost times whenever you talk to your friend supposing you don’t talk every
day , that way you won’t become strangers so quick .
One important thing to note also is that, if somebody is not
adding value to your life, doesn’t even care whether youre alive or dead, but
pops up from time to time to ask for help. Let me tell you the best thing to do:
board the next flight to your hometown, ask for the biggest cutlass, and cut
the friendship. You don’t need such in your life. Any one who “friend” is always
trying to act drama and cause a scene and always involves you? Ask them what
they want, if they don’t know, use that cutlass too. Ehen!!
If you are bothered about whether you will have 5 grooms’
men or 12 bride’s maids, my dear, it’s not worth the hassle. It’s better to
have only one grooms man or brides maid , than to have 20 and be wondering if 2
are sleeping with your spouse or making arrangement with your spouse on their new meeting point when you
and your spouse relocate or how they will poison the wine cup you’ll use . The one
friend you trust that is loyal is better than 10 disloyal lots. So thread
carefully.
Also loyalty and all
those lots come with the friendship package, if it doesn’t come breakout early.
RUN!!!! Let your heels touch the back of your head. Just like when you buy a
phone, no matter how small. It comes with a charger, an earpiece; a battery and
a manual if it doesn’t you return it back. So much so, return the person back
to his base when the warranty still stands before they ruin your life.
Long story short, all I’m saying is that if you love your friend ,
act just like Jesus did, he died so we might live. I mean I can't begin to
phantom what kind of love can make anyone do that but he did. If you are guilty of
sinking your ships, you still have a chance to change, if you don’t know how
ask God to teach you how because he is the greatest teacher. Friendship is not
by mouth, it is by actions, the little things you do can go a very long way. Most
good relationships and marriages have strong and solid friendship backing with
will last till marriage vows wear out.
Lastly, one thing I want to correct is that I believe there is
no such thing as a “true” friend. The person is either your friend or not. That
is why there are words like acquaintance, colleague, mate etc. there isn’t
anything like fake friend either. Yes, I know people pretend to be friends with
you and will do you dirty, whosoever those that is not your friend or “fake friend”.
Find another word for it that doesn’t have to do with friend.
Thank you all for reading, God
bless.
I hope we all become better friends to our friends.
COMMENTS? QUESTIONS ?